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What does this cost to build? Every input after Material Efficiency and structure bonuses, plus an estimated job installation cost broken into its terms.

Blueprint

Structure rigs and job taxes are owner-set and unreadable from ESI, so set them to match the structure you actually use. An NPC station has no rig slots and charges 0.25%.

Summary

Shadow Control Tower Blueprint

Runs: 1Material Efficiency: 0Produces: 1 Shadow Control TowerFacility: NPC stationCost index: 0.1718 in Jita

No material rig · High security · facility tax 0.25% (NPC default) · prices from Jita IV - Moon 4 - Caldari Navy Assembly Plant, The Forge · snapshot dated 2026-09-09 12:49 UTC · cost index fetched 2026-09-09 12:40 UTC

Materials

Materials for 1 run at ME 0 · rounded once for the whole job
MaterialBase per runJob base (ME 0)RequiredSell price (ISK)Buy price (ISK)Line at sell (ISK)Line at buy (ISK)Adjusted pricePrice source
Tritanium3,500,0003,500,0003,500,0003.80 ISK3.68 ISK13,300,000.00 ISK12,880,000.00 ISK2.9865696331776257esi
Pyerite583,333583,333583,33318.22 ISK17.00 ISK10,628,327.26 ISK9,916,661.00 ISK14.223503774804698esi
Mexallon175,000175,000175,00051.83 ISK49.57 ISK9,070,250.00 ISK8,674,750.00 ISK38.70689487913031esi
Isogen58,33358,33358,333183.20 ISK169.60 ISK10,686,605.60 ISK9,893,276.80 ISK180.11326182854592esi
Nocxium29,16729,16729,167714.70 ISK678.90 ISK20,845,654.90 ISK19,801,476.30 ISK624.90141730334esi
Zydrine46,66646,66646,6661,298.00 ISK1,277.00 ISK60,572,468.00 ISK59,592,482.00 ISK1192.7999712486971esi
Megacyte17,50017,50017,5002,540.00 ISK2,498.00 ISK44,450,000.00 ISK43,715,000.00 ISK2021.604857235643esi
Gallente Control Tower111 *443,700,000.00 ISK210,800,000.00 ISK443,700,000.00 ISK210,800,000.00 ISK173095815.1627085esi

* Held at one unit per run: every run needs at least one of every listed material, however far Material Efficiency and rigs reduce it.

Installation cost

Estimated installation cost · EIV 318,393,889.61 ISK x 0.2143
TermRateCost (ISK)
System cost index 0.17180.171854,700,070.24 ISK
Facility tax 0.25%0.0025795,984.72 ISK
SCC surcharge 4%0.0412,735,755.58 ISK
Installation cost0.214368,231,810.54 ISK

Cost and margin

Total cost against what the Shadow Control Tower sells for
ScenarioMaterials (ISK)Installation (ISK)Total cost (ISK)Cost per unit (ISK)Revenue (ISK)Profit (ISK)Margin
Buy the inputs from sell orders and sell the product to buy orders613,253,305.76 ISK68,231,810.54 ISK681,485,116.30 ISK681,485,116.30 ISK800,600,000.00 ISK119,114,883.70 ISK14.87%
Buy the inputs with buy orders and list the product at the sell price375,273,646.10 ISK68,231,810.54 ISK443,505,456.64 ISK443,505,456.64 ISK1,500,000,000.00 ISK1,056,494,543.36 ISK70.43%

Material modifier

Material modifier 1 · multiply these to reproduce it
MultiplierValue
Material Efficiency 01
Material modifier1

Caveats

  • CCP has never published a job cost or Estimated Item Value formula. The installation cost below is an estimate built from the Viridian expansion notes and community reverse engineering, not an official figure.
  • ESI reports the system cost index rounded to four decimal places while the server uses full precision, so the installation cost is approximate by construction.
  • No ESI route exposes a player structure's fitted rigs or its industry tax rate, so the structure, rig and tax above are whatever you selected. This page does not know how any real structure is configured.
  • Single level only. A material that is itself manufacturable is priced at the market here, not built. Component build trees are not part of this page.
  • The Estimated Item Value uses ME-0 base quantities and CCP adjusted prices. It is deliberately not reduced by Material Efficiency, the structure role bonus or a rig.
  • Invention, reactions, copying, research and job time are out of scope. This page answers material and installation cost only.

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